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"Never Been Any Reason" is the debut single by Head East from their debut album Flat as a Pancake.It was composed by the band's guitarist, Mike Somerville. It is often considered Head East's signature song, [1] peaking at number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100, and continues to be played on classic rock radio stations in the US, generations after it was released.
Flat as a Pancake is the debut studio album by American rock band Head East.The album was originally released independently by Pyramid Records. However, when radio stations began to play the song "Never Been Any Reason", A&M Records signed the band and re-released the album in June 1975. [2]
The band's 1975 single, "Never Been Any Reason", was featured in the 2005 movie adaptation of Clive Cussler's novel Sahara, and appears on the soundtrack to the 1993 coming-of-age drama Dazed and Confused, as well as being briefly heard in the film. The song has also been used on TV's That '70s Show and Friday Night Lights.
The group started recording around 1970. The gospel quartet included Lee Williams as lead singer, Al Hollis as guitarist and background vocal, Patrick Hollis as background singer, Leonard Shumpert as second lead vocalist, and new full-time bassist Tommie Harris. Lee Williams was the co-lead singer along with Willie Ligon.
Before he was the lead singer of English supergroup Bad Company, English-Canadian singer Paul Rodgers was in the English band Free who scored a single US hit in 1970 with the song "All Right Now". In 1985, while Bad Company was on hiatus, Rodgers was the lead singer of the British band The Firm who achieved one-off success with "Radioactive ...
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Williams followed Shenault as his lead blocker to the right. A block from Jake Bobo off the right edge of the kick-block formation at the Seattle 35-yard line allowed Williams through the first line.
They were notable for having Stubbs, a baritone, as their lead singer, whereas most other male and mixed vocal groups of the time were fronted by tenors. The group was the primary male vocal group for the highly successful songwriting and production team of Holland–Dozier–Holland , who wrote numerous hit singles for Motown.